i hope she'll be a fool, its the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool

gatsby looked at Daisy ina way that every young girl wanted to be looked at

why don't you tell me that if the girl had been worth having, she'd have waited for you? No, sir, the girl really worth having won't wait for anybody

i knew it was a great mistake for a man like me to fall in love

among the whispering and the champagne and the stars

he threw all those parties hoping she would wander in one night

when i first met her i knew in a moment i would have to spend the next few days re-arranging my mind so there'd be room for her to stay

i knew it was a great mistake for a man like me to fall in love

among the whispering and the champagne and the stars

he threw all those parties hoping she would wander in one night

when i first met her i knew in a moment i would have to spend the next few days re-arranging my mind so there'd be room for her to stay

our lives are defined by opportunites, even the ones we miss

he knew when he kissed this girl and forever wed his unutterable visions to her perishable breath, his mind would never romp again like the mind of god

there are only the pursued, the pursuing, the busy and the tired

"Self-control!" repeated Tom incredulously. "I suppose the latest thing is to sit back and let Mr. Nobody from Nowhere make love to your wife. Well, if that's the idea you can count me out

breathing dreams like air

She simply observed herself as a fair product of nature in the feminine kind… the smiles being of a phase suggesting that hearts were imagined as lost and won.

it is hard to get back to earth and to believe that the consciousness of such majestic speeding is derived from a tiny human frame.

Fitness being the basis of beauty, nobody could have denied that his steady swings and turns in and about the flock had elements of grace.

the radiance which had attracted him. oak stepped , up behind, where, leaning down upon the roof and putting his eye close to a hole, he could see into the interior clearly. The place contained two women.

The bailiff who showed this nervous dread of loving his neighbour as himself

The worst features of this arrangement were that, if he thought she ridiculed him an apology would increase the offence by being disbelieved, and if he thought she wanted him to woo er, it would read like additional evidence of her forwardness. (Boldwood)

Had she (bathsheba) known Boldwood’s moods her blame would have been fearful, and the stain upon her heart eradicable.

She (Bathsheba) resolved never again by look or by sign to interrupt the steady flow of this man’s life. But a resolution to avoid an evil is seldom framed till the evil is so far advanced as to make avoidance is impossible.

every flower that was not a buttercup was a daisy

I feel - almost - too much to think, he said with a solemn simplicity. I have come to speak to you without preface. My life is not my own since I have beheld you clearly. Miss Everdene - I come to make you an offer of marriage. - Boldwood

... I will protect and cherish you with all my strength - I will indeed. You shall have no cares - be worried by no household affairs, and live quite at ease, Miss Everdene. -Boldwood

I have already tried to please you too much for my own good.

Poor Gabriel’s soul was fed with a luxury of content by having her over him.

Treat them fairly and you are a lost man. he (Troy) would say.

the scarlet handful of fire, in addition to the candle, reflecting it’s own genial colour upon whatever it could reach

Having for some time known the want of satisfactory form to fill an increasing void within him, his position moreover affording the widest scope for his fancy, he painted her a beauty.

Our mis’ess will bring us l to the bad... a headstrong maid- that’s what she is - and won’t listen to no advice at all. Pride and vanity have ruined many a cobbler’s dog.- Henery Fray

The phases of Boldwood’s life were ordinary enough,but his was not an ordinary nature.

The insulation of his (Boldwood’s) heart be reserve during these many years, without a channel of any kind for disposal emotion, had worked its effect… No mother existed to adsorb his devotion, no sister for his tenderness, no idle ties for sense. He became surcharged with the compound, which was a genuine lover’s love.

The great aids to idealisation in love were present here: occasional observation of her from a distance, and the absence of social intercurse with her - visual familiarity oral strangeness

She heard footsteps brushing the grass, and had a consciousness that love was encircling her like a perfume.

My life is a burden without you, he exclaimed in a low voice. - I want you - I want you to let me say I love you again and again! - Boldwood

In every point of view ranging from politic to passionate, it was desirable that she, a lonely girl, should marry, and marry this earnest, well to do, and respected man.

A woman may be treated with a bitterness which is sweet to her, and with a rudeness that is not offensive.

But a manly resolve to recognise boldly that he had no longer a lover’s interest in her helped him (oak) occasionally to conceal a feeling.

-your eyes will bewitch scores on scores into an unavailing fancy for you…

...loving is a misery for women always. I shall never forgive god for making me a woman, and dearly am I beginning to pay for the honour of owning a pretty face.

All romances end at marriage.

Between this half-wooded, half-naked hill and the vague still horizon that its summit indistinctly commanded was a mysterious sheet of fathomless shade-

Suddenly an unexpected series of sounds began to be heard in this place up against the sky. They had a clearness which was to be found nowhere in the wind, and a sequence which was to be found nowhere in nature. they were the notes of farmer Oaks flute.

and regarded it in an appreciative spirit, as a work of art superlatively beautiful. for a moment he seemed impressed with the speaking loneliness of the scene

Recollection of the strange antics she had indulged in when passing through the trees, was succeeded in the girl by a nettled palpitatio, and that by a hot face. It was time to see the girl

Twould do a martel man no harm to have what’s under her bonnet, said Billy Smallbury , who had just entered bearing his one tooth before him. she can spaik real language, and must have some sense somewhere. Do ye foller me?

If an emotion possessed him at all, it ruled him: a feeling not mastering him was entirely latent. Stagnant or rapid it was never slow. He was always hit mortally, or he was missed.

It troubled her much to see what great flame a little wildfire was likely to kindle. Bathsheba was no schemer for marriage, nor was she deliberately a trifler with the affections of men

He (Boldwood) had by this time grown used to being in love: the passion now startled him even less when it tortured him more and he felt himself adequate to the situation.

Silence has sometimes a remarkable power of showing itself as the disembodied soul of feeling wandering without its carcase, and it is then more impressive than speech. ( link to pride and prejudice)

If you love me, say so, Miss Everdene. If not - don't say no. - Boldwood

She said in the same breath that it would be ungenerous not to marry Boldwood, and that she couldn’t do it to save her life.

Every green was young every pore was open, and every stalk was swollen with racing currents of juice.

For his bride a soldier sought her and a winning tongue had he: on the banks of Allan Water none was gay as she. (a ballad by M.G.Lewis)

Bathsheba loved Troy in the way that only self-reliant women love when they abandon their self reliance.

...love which is strong as death - that love which many waters cannot quench, nor the floods drown, beside which the passion usually called by the name is evanescent as steam.

I shall do one thing in this life - one thing certain - that is, love you, and long for you, and keep wanting you till I die.

Paul dared not go forward for fear of standing on piles of white stuff

a house o' women is a dead house wi' no fire, to my thinkin'. I'm not a spider as likes a corner to myself. i like a man about, if he's only something to snap at.

she's very nice but she's a bit too much above this world to suit my fancy

That's another trick the men have played, since we force ourselves into the labour market

her arm moved mechanically, that should never have been subdued to a mechanism, and her head was bowed to the lace, that never should have been bowed

he waited for her

anyone especially a daughter, who could appear so virginal and sweet was obviously involved in mischiefs and misdemeanours

love is a kind of dementia with very precise and oft-repeated clinical symptoms

his dry dissection of her heart seemed to have already banished the magic from her imagination

the revelation of physical imperfections and infirmities was often a powerful antidote to love

love is a temporary madness

"His eyes were like tunnels; my first thought was that he had committed a crime, but soon I saw it was only a passion that had moved into his body, like a stranger."

"You want somethin' else Eddie, and you can never have her!"

Eddie: "Katie you are walkin' wavy! I don't like the looks they're givin you […] The heads are turnin' like windmills."

[Stage Direction:] [Catherine] strikes a match and holds it to [Eddie's] cigar.

Beatrice: "When am I going to be a wife again, Eddie?"

Eddie: "I guess I just never figure on one thing." Catherine, smiling: "What?" Eddie: "That you would ever grow up."

Catherine: "If I was a wife I would make a man happy instead of goin' at him all the time."

Rodolpho, clasping her to him: "Oh, my little girl." Catherine: Teach me. […] I don't know anything, teach me, Rodolfo, hold me.

Eddie: "A wife is supposed to believe the husband."

Pride and Prejudice

“My good opinion once lost is lost forever.”

“Her heart did whisper that he had done it for her.”

“We are all fools in love”

What do I not owe you! You taught me a lesson, hard indeed at first, but most advantageous. By you, I was properly humbled. I came to you without a doubt of my reception. You showed me how insufficient were all my pretensions to please a woman worthy of being pleased.”

Pride and Prejudice

your selfish disdain of the feelings of others, were such as to form the groundwork of disapprobation on which succeeding events have built so immovable a dislike; and I had not known you a month before I felt that you were the last man in the world whom I could ever be prevailed on to marry.”

You are too generous to trifle with me. If your feelings are still what they were last April, tell me so at once. My affections and wishes are unchanged; but one word from you will silence me on this subject for ever.”

“A girl likes to be crossed a little in love now and then. It is something to think of”

“An unhappy alternative is before you, Elizabeth. From this day you must be a stranger to one of your parents. Your mother will never see you again if you do not marry Mr. Collins, and I will never see you again if you do.”

Pride and Prejudice

“A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.”

“It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.”

“There are few people whom I really love, and still fewer of whom I think well. The more I see of the world, the more am I dissatisfied with it; and every day confirms my belief of the inconsistency of all human characters, and of the little dependence that can be placed on the appearance of merit or sense.”

“What are men to rocks and mountains?”

There are no monuments dedicated to me and my name will soon be forgotten, but I've loved another with all my heart and soul, and to me, this has always been enough..”

“So it's not gonna be easy. It's going to be really hard; we're gonna have to work at this everyday, but I want to do that because I want you. I want all of you, forever, everyday. You and me... everyday.”

“You are my best friend as well as my lover, and I do not know which side of you I enjoy the most. I treasure each side, just as I have treasured our life together.”

“You are, and always have been, my dream.”

“I love you. I am who I am because of you. You are every reason, every hope, and every dream I've ever had, and no matter what happens to us in the future, everyday we are together is the greatest day of my life. I will always be yours. ”

“We fell in love, despite our differences, and once we did, something rare and beautiful was created. For me, love like that has only happened once, and that's why every minute we spent together has been seared in my memory. I'll never forget a single moment of it.”

“My daddy said, that the first time you fall in love, it changes you forever and no matter how hard you try, that feeling just never goes away.”

You are a song, a dream, a whisper, and I don't know how I could have lived without you for as long as I have.”

“She was my dream. She made me who I am, and holding her in my arms was more natural to me than my own heartbeat.

I shrank myself to the size of a bird in the hand of a man

Hook…line…sinker

The woman who married the fool

Lack of thought for me

He guided my fingers…over his heart

But I cannot be gentle or loving or tender I have to be strong

He fucked me again

He lay with his head on my lap

My warrior

I’d rather be dead

I’ll try to break their hearts by breaking my own

You loved me then what right had you to leave me?

Why did you betray your own heart, Cathy?

I forgive what you have done to me. I love my murderer

Be with me always – take any form – drive me mad!

I have no more business to marry Edgar Linton than I have to be in heaven.

It would degrade me to marry Heathcliff now; so he shall never know how I love him.

Whatever our souls are made of his and mine are the same.

My love for Linton is like the foliage in the woods, time will change it. My love for Heathcliff resembles the eternal rocks beneath

Nelly I am Heathcliff

love is not breathless, it is not excitement.. It is not the desire to mate every second minute of the day,

it is not lying awake night

imagining he is kissing every cranny of your body

love itself is what is left over when being in love has burned away,

and this is both an art and a fortunate accident

when all the pretty blossom had fallen from our branches we found that we were one tree and not two

my bride's breath soured, stank

bullet tears in my eyes

be terrified, it's you I love perfect man

but I know you'll go, betray me, stray from home

love gone bad

a shield for a heart

wasn't I beautiful

look at me now

ding-a-ling member and jock

snake in the trousers, wife's best friend

the rammer, the slammer

love is a universal migraine

symptoms of true love are leanness, jealousy

I love thee to the depth and breadth and height, my soul can reach

I love thee freely… I love thee purely

I shall but love thee better after death

come to me now!

my worn heart throbs so wildly, 'twill break for thee

I shall surely win the, beloved, again